New feature -- antiword support

Rob Kettle rob at kettle.org.uk
Wed Jul 2 23:13:59 IST 2008


Julian Field wrote:
> Hi folks!
>
> I felt a bit bored at home this afternoon, supposedly having a day off...
>
> So I added support for the "antiword" program.
> Basically what MailScanner can now do is find *.doc files attached to 
> your email messages, convert them to plain text (with a bit of 
> *highlighting* like that) and add the text as new attachments to the 
> messages.
> This means that when someone mails you a simple Word doc, you don't 
> have to save the attachment, possibly switch OS and computer, and 
> crank up Word just to read a few lines of text.
>
> The "ChangeLog" tells you how to use it. Basically install antiword from
> http://www.winfield.demon.nl/
> (or from RPM or SRPMS at http://www.volny.cz/zellerin/rpmmenu.html)
> then set "Add Text Of Doc = yes" to your MailScanner.conf (having run 
> upgrade_MailScanner_conf of course!).
>
> And you're away.
>
> Have fun,
>
> Jules
>
Hi,

if I enable the new feature then MailScanner runs at almost 100% when 
any email arrives. Nothing gets processed. Disable thus feature and 
normal processing happens.

MailScanner --lint shows no errors. (Centos 5.2 system).

Rob

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